Jonathan Stern, Ph.D., has been a clinical psychologist for over thirty years, with a private practice;)
in Manhattan and Litchfield, CT. In addition to working with adults individually and in couples therapy, he specializes in psychotherapy with teenagers, children of all ages, and their parents. He also conducts thorough educational assessments, and attention and concentration evaluations of children (age 10 and older), teenagers and adults. In addition to private practice, Dr. Stern is a consulting psychologist at The Rodeph Sholom School in Manhattan, where he also co-created a social-emotional curriculum, and for many years consulted to The Forman School in CT, a college prep boarding school for high schoolers with attentional issues and learning differences.
Dr. Stern received his undergraduate degree in Psychology and Spanish from Haverford College (summa cum laude and phi beta kappa) and his doctorate in clinical psychology from The University of Connecticut; and he completed both an internship and an advanced child/family forensic internship at Children's Hospital in Boston. Dr. Stern previously was Supervising Psychologist at New York's Beth Israel Medical Center Child Psychiatry Outpatient Department, where he also was Director of the Clinical Externship Program and a participating therapist in the Brief Psychotherapy Research Project.
Dr. Stern has published articles and chapters on conducting cognitive group therapy with parents and doing psychotherapy with challenging parents, and he is the co-author of Succeeding with Difficult Clients for therapists. Dr. Stern has conducted training workshops for professionals on Cognitive Appraisal Therapy, most notably at The Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, and he has taught graduate students in counseling at Long Island University for a decade, and, previously, undergraduates at Pace University, Marymount Manhattan College, and The University of Connecticut. He has given numerous talks to parents on a variety of topics pertaining to parenting and child development. (He is available for weddings and bar mitzvahs. Just kidding, but maybe that's not such a bad idea...)
Dr. Stern is married and has two sons, ages 27 and 25. Raising them has taught him more about parenting, child development, marriage, and himself than has any training, therapy, or other life experience.